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[2 Jul 2004 | 3 Comments | ]

Yesterday I started writing about the ICT for development meeting I was at held at ICRISAT at Hyderabad earlier this week. The usual suspects were in attendance. I had met many of them at the MS Swaminathan Policy Makers’ Conference at Chennai a few months ago. One face new to me was Prof Ken Keniston of MIT who gave an opening address.
He made five cautionary points which are worth noting. They are:

Do not get seduced by ICT
Localize, localize, localize
Do realistic …